How do you know if this subject is new or copied?

"I already had several of my responds erased do to the fact that the subject I was responding to were copied." When our responses are deleted because the discussion that they were under was deleted, we are not informed as to the reason for the deletion - so how do you know that those topics were copied? If you read a lot here, even without responding, you will recognise topics that you have already seen before. If a friend on your list suddenly starts posting endless new topics, you can check them out by copying part of the topic and pastingit into a search engine. If it is copied from somewhere then it will show up. You will get used to how your friends write and if one day you see something written by them where the grammar or spelliong or punctuation is complety different from their usual style then you might want to check on that too.

Aside from the suggestions above, you can also try getting the topics from discussions tab. It is located at the upper left part of every page of myLot. It is the third tab from the left: home, interests, discussions, tasks, blogs, etc. If you're getting the topic from that tab, you'll see duplications under each topic that you'll pulled up. You should also check first if they're exact duplications, usually they're not. I have attached a sample.

I always check with the Mylot search bar before starting a new discussion. I check to see if a similar discussion has been started before. However, I have honestly never checked a discussion before responding to it. It is too tiring to have to check every discussion to see if it is copied or not before posting a response to it. I post my responses to whichever discussions I get interested in and whenever I have time. But sometimes my responses get deleted and I get the notification from Mylot that the question my response was under has been deleted. I usually presume that the discussion had been reported by members. Nowadays I am responding a bit carefully so that my responses stay. Or else if we keep working hard to post our thoughts and then those discussions get deleted and our responses too as a result, it would not be a very nice thing.

Many deletions take place under "mylot" category. From my experience I have seen other topics deletion is not that much. But mostly we get chances for responding more mylot topics. hence deletion is there. supposing we answer topics relating to health, studies, sports , dreams etc. deletion will be less.

hi Ixodoi, I don't have any origial answers for you, but your responses sure had some interesting information that is of use to others as well as yourself.... Thanks for posting the question...

This is so silly, why would people copy conversations? I think you just need to respond to the people you trust or haven't had any problems with the conversation. I try to avoid people who pump out a bunch of conversations all at once. I know they want to make money, but it's very hard to keep track of one conversation, let alone a hundred in one day.

1xodoi I was thinking much the same but perhaps we should scan the older discussions and if we see some that are quite popular try to remember the discussion. then if you happen to see a new discussion using the same identical words you should hit the report button and report him or her for plagiarizing someone else's work.

You have been given some good suggestions already. The easiest way (aside from the ones already suggested) is just time and reading. Once you have been here a while, then it will get easier to spot the ones that likely are duplicates. Also, if you look in an interest category, such as "myLot", and there are multiple discussions on the same topic in the first page or two, then I would suggest not responding to any of them as there is a good chance many (if not all) will be deleted.